The human foot is distinctive. Our five toes lack claws, we normally present the sole of our foot flat to the ground, and our first and second toes are longer than the smaller ones. In comparison to our fellow primates, our big toes are in line...

The Museum of LondonâEUR(TM)s latest display of curious objects, Junk, reveals some these ingenious alternative uses and the creative repairs to be found in everything from Roman pots mended with lead, iron wires and adhesive made from tree bark and...

HUMAN-like footprints have been found stamped into an ancient sea shore fossilised beneath the Mediterranean island of Crete. They shouldnâEUR(TM)t be there. Testing puts the rockâEUR(TM)s age at 5.7 million years...

Now, one of the most important tasks for archaeologists is renovating the magnificent guard statue found on the second day of the dig on July 29 and analyzing soil samples to determine which medicinal plants were grown at the site where....

There has been a lot of interest in our discovery of nearly-6m-year-old footprints on Crete, suggesting that human ancestors could have roamed Europe at the same time as they were evolving in East Africa. Sadly the site was vandalised in the last week

researchers in Cantabria, Spain were tipped off to the possible existence of the cave art by a speleologist 20 years ago. However, it is only recently that sufficiently advanced technology has become available to confirm those claims...

A sword has been retrieved from Dozmary Pool in Cornwall by a 7-year-old girl who was paddling in the shallow water near the edge. Local folklore has it that this was the very lake where the legendary Excalibur was thrown by Sir Bedivere...

A n ice free corridor between the Americas and Asia opened up about 12,500 years ago, allowing humans to cross over the Bering land bridge to settle what is now the United States and places beyond to the south. History books have conveyed...

Greek police arrested on Friday a 55-year-old man in connection with the theft of 10 fossilised footprints which were stolen on earlier this week from the site where they were uncovered in Kissamos, Western Crete, authorities announced....

SeanâEUR(TM)s Bar is a pub located in Athlone, in IrelandâEUR(TM)s County Westmeath. This bar holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest public house in Ireland. In addition, it has often been claimed that this is the oldest ....